Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 2 | The question is whether competition policy is seeking to raise the welfare of a particular economy , or whether it should be used as an instrument to promote economic efficiency at a supranational ( or even international ) level . |
| 3 | There is no reason to treat fictional language in a totally different way . |
| 4 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 5 | Its RTnet-OSI V 3.0 networking software suite has been enhanced to include expanded support for a larger number of X25 wide area and Ethernet local area connections . |
| 6 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 7 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 8 | In the first place , it is essential that such movements should formulate a doctrine which is capable of arousing sufficient enthusiasm and commitment to sustain political activity over a period of time . |
| 9 | Intended to support economic reforms over a 10-month period , the credit would be issued in four tranches . |
| 10 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ protagonists , on the other hand , tend to see parental rights as a force still to be reckoned with in law , agency practice and social attitudes . |
| 11 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 12 | There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s . |
| 13 | Japan sees its fight to preserve commercial whaling as a test case for its exploitation of other commercially more important marine resources , for example the bluefin tuna in the Atlantic . |
| 14 | Employers in general appeared to see ageing people as a national responsibility rather than as their immediate concern . |
| 15 | The Institute will continue to issue pro-forma records on an annual basis . |
| 16 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 17 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 18 | The first move was to galvanise scientific opinion by a series of regional and national debates on science policy . |
| 19 | An interest in deep-water fishing has been shown by owners of large Shetland boats , but most are unwilling to risk high costs for a relatively unknown fishery . |
| 20 | Essentially Cockburn updates Marx 's idea that the state acts as an ‘ executive of the bourgeoisie ’ , to include social reproduction as an important concern of the state and ideology as an important dimension of domination by the state . |
| 21 | At Wroxeter , as early as 1912 , Bushe-Fox clearly appreciated the need to arrange coarse pottery in a dated sequence . |
| 22 | It 's good to see old Bill with a woman . |
| 23 | Apart from the current pressures from Central Government not to build or replace residential homes but to rely more heavily on the private and voluntary sector and housing associations , they are also being pressed to see Residential Care as a positive choice ( Wagner Report 1987 ) , to see the residential home as a community resource by providing more flexible patterns , respite , short-term and long term care and extended day care . |
| 24 | Galliher had been reported , another judge of the Chancery Division declined to include Scottish premises in an Anton Piller order . |
| 25 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 26 | This created a business grouping , with a spread of research and technical facilities and sales operations , from which it was possible to forge a rationalized enterprise to attack international markets for a range of products to meet specific requirements in a spread of user industries — acrylics , urethanes , polyesters and a variety of novel surface-coatings and adhesive polymers . |
| 27 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 28 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
| 29 | A jetpack that allows our hero to fly , and a pair of bionic legs that give Steg the power to leap tall buildings with a single bound and super-slug speed-ups are scattered around . |
| 30 | Such material may not be introduced to establish textual ambiguity in an apparently unambiguous statutory provision . |